Thursday, October 07, 2010

Launch Notification: SHIJIAN-6G and SHIJIAN-6H

Courtesy of AGI's Launch Notification e-mails. AGI's E-mails are sent after every launch and include key spacecraft information such as: the date, time, launch site, launcher, international number, name, and owner. Get more information on thousands of satellites and other vehicles by viewing STK models, animations, and our encyclopedic "Spacecraft Digest" database at www.agi.com/scdigest.

"Two research satellites flew into a nearly 400-mile-high [644-km-high] orbit early Wednesday on a Long March rocket, continuing a pace of nearly one Chinese launch a week since the end of July.

"A Long March 4B rocket lifted off at 0049 GMT Wednesday (8:49 p.m. EDT Tuesday) from the Taiyuan space center in northern China. The launch occurred a few hours before the Chang'e 2 lunar orbiter arrived at the moon after a five-day journey from Earth.

"According to the state-run Xinhua news agency, the 15-story rocket carried two Shijian 6 satellites. U.S. military tracking data show the spacecraft orbiting about 375 miles [603 km] above Earth with an inclination of about 98 degrees to the equator.

"It was the 11th space launch of the year for China Seven of those missions have been since the end of July, a span of less than 10 weeks.

"The payloads are the fourth pair of Shijian 6 satellites. The spacecraft, dubbed Shijian 6G and Shijian 6H, will probe the space environment, according to Xinhua.

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